[Openicc] Colour management results of GSoC 2011

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

We are pleased to announce the final results of this years OpenICC 
participation in the Google Summer of Code program [1].
All students could reach successfully the project goals and obtained the 
second part of the Google stipends.

OpenICC mentored two students directly and one student through the 
collaboration with the openSUSE organisation. All three worked on colour 
management projects, which covered in parts new ground breaking 
technology and maintain existing one.


Yiannis Belias worked on the "API stabilization for Oyranos Colour 
Management System II" project [2]. The new classes, code generator 
improvements and tools will walk into the Oyranos master branch in the 
next months. This project helps in stablising the CMS core, which covers a 
great foundation of functionality. After the conversion, it will be much 
easier to provide stable and extensible APIs.

Joseph Simon realised the XCPD project. It's goal was to implement 
the idea of a robust, standards conform printing dialog, which is based on 
the Common Printing Dialog (CPD) projects code. The handled and 
manipulated PDF follows the PDF/X specification for embedding user side 
colour managed content and remote printer configuration [3] [4].

Sebastian Oliva implemented a ICC device profile data base, called taxi. 
It is intented to share vendor and user created ICC profiles across 
platforms in a automated fashion. The online data base is designed to 
cover meta data about the device driver calibration status alongside the 
characterisation information in the belonging ICC profiles. The DB 
is online [5] [6]. The project slot was provided by the openSUSE 
distribution project and mentored by a OpenICC member.


Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers 
stipends to write code for various open source software projects.

Many thanks to all students for their great work, all people how helped in 
shaping the basic ideas and discussing the projects in detail and Google 
for providing the stipends and openSUSE for addtionally inviting their 
students to the europe openSUSE Conference.


regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org


[1] http://code.google.com/soc/
[2] https://github.com/yiannis/Oyranos
[3] https://www.gitorious.org/google-summer-of-code-2011/xcpd
[4] http://jsimon3.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/gsoc%E2%80%9911-update-%E2%80%93-final/
[5] http://icc.opensuse.org
[6] http://openicc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=openicc/taxi